Newmanstown Police Jail

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The Newmanstown Police Jail is located at 111 Mill Road in Newmanstown, PA and is a medium security police department jail operated by the Heidelberg Township Police Department.

This site will tell you information about everything you might want to know about the Newmanstown Police Jail, such as how to locate an inmate at the Newmanstown Police Jail, the jail’s phone number and address, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and much, much more.

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Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to give you information you need to make going to jail easier. If you have questions, just ask it, and also any tips or comments that would help others will be appreciated.

Newmanstown Police Jail Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Newmanstown Police Jail Inmate Locator is an online list of individuals currently in custody, including current status, and visiting hours. You can find the same information on anybody who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hours. Inmates are shown in alphabetical order by their last name. You can find the information quicker if you enter their full name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Newmanstown Police Jail Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake procedure at the Newmanstown Police Jail takes you through the following steps:

You will be placed in a waiting area or cell. If there are a lot of arrests, you will have to wait, sometimes for many hours, before you get processed.

You will answer a bunch of questions, like your legal name, street address, date of birth and a contact person, and they’ll also ask about your psychological and medical history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID number and you will get fingerprinted. Then, Any property you have will be taken away from you and stored until you get released from jail.

They will allow you to make a telephone call to call a family member, friend, or loved-on.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be able to keep wearing street clothes, otherwise you you will be given a jail jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. This process will take from 15 minutes to all day long. Or, simply, the faster you post bail, the faster you will get discharged. Also, it depends on whether you have a cash bond or if the magistrate needs to determine how much to set your bail at. For a minor charge, you will be booked and get released without having to post bail. When you get to the end of your sentence and are given a release date, expect to be discharged between 9am and noon.

Newmanstown Police Jail Visitation

Inmates need to list each visitor’s full name to the Newmanstown Police Jail in advance. Your visitors will go in the visitation log as an Authorized visit. Each and every visitor is required to provide identification. Anyone that gets to visitation or that is not on the visitation list will not be allowed to visit the inmate.

Visitation procedures at Newmanstown Police Jail frequently change, so you should call the official Newmanstown Police Jail at 717-949-3855 before you go to visitation.

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Visitation Rules

To visit an inmate at the Newmanstown Police Jail you have to first be added to the inmate’s approved visitation list.

Make sure to bring your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter without it.

No mobile phones at Newmanstown Police Jail, and you will be searched before visiting. Personal belongings are not allowed. Anyone probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both their individual supervising officer and the superintendent prior to a visit. This kind of visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not a family member of the inmate, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know in order to send letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Newmanstown Police Jail. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Newmanstown Police Jail is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Newmanstown Police Jail. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Newmanstown Police Jail to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you have an outstanding warrant, you can check arrest warrants on the Lebanon County jail website or call the jail. You have to have the person’s first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask one of the officers. You should be clear that if you do have an outstanding warrant, you should be prepared to get taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, by phone, in person, or you can check online. Arrest records are a matter of public record and this information is accessible by the public.

Court Records

Court Records are considered public records, so they are accessible to anyone who requests them. These records include a case file containing a docket sheet and any of the documents filed in your case. You can access the court records via the internet service ‘Public Access to Court Electronic Records’, or at the Lebanon County Clerk of Court office where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each state maintains a record of someone’s criminal history. These online databases are linked together and you can track criminal convictions from other states. You can go to county courthouse and make an inquiry, or check online. It is helpful to know the county, and in the event that it was in a different state entirely, you might have to pay for a more intensive search.

A criminal records search you can get a listing of all the arrests, charges, or convictions for driving under the influence (DUI), drug offenses such as possession or trafficking, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes including assault, battery and murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The rules for sending funds to inmates at the Newmanstown Police Jail is likely to change, so check the Newmanstown Police Jail site before you send money to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Newmanstown Police Jail

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Newmanstown Police Jail uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at 717-949-3855 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Newmanstown Police Jail store. You can purchase different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Remember that you will most likely need to use the commissary every day, and any infractions will cause you to lose commissary privileges.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that the inmate can buy if they have money in their commissary account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products like soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

Phone calls that inmates are allowed to make from the Newmanstown Police Jail are made through a jail approved pre-paid phone account or phone card . Jail phone calls are a lot more costly than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but you should keep in mind lots of people want to use the phone – so you have to share. If you break the rules, phone privileges might get reduced or eliminated altogether.

The Newmanstown Police Jail phone number is: 717-949-3855

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service providers have exclusive contracts at each facility that they have a contract with, which means that they get to set the prices. The profits from all of the phone calls that inmates make are split with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Newmanstown Police Jail. The prices are posted and there are at least two types of prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors will determine how much an inmate phone call will cost: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For the other correctional facilities like state prisons, and local and county jails finding out how to lower your inmates phone charges can be more difficult. ArrestedResources.com keeps up to date with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you a lot of money on how much it costs you to call your inmate. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you money on your inmate calls, and therefore we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In cases like this, the facility has set their phone rates so high that nobody will be able to save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Newmanstown Police Jail, click the link below.

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